REAIM 2026 Pathways to Action

Summary

Outcome document of the third REAIM summit (A Coruña, 4-5 February 2026), building on the 2023 Call to Action and the 2024 Blueprint for Action. Its 28 paragraphs invite states and other stakeholders to operationalise responsible military AI: compliance with humanitarian and human rights law, 'responsible by design', accountability of states and individuals without 'accountability gaps', AI assurance for reliability and security while anticipating AGI or ASI, and decision support that does not replace human judgement. National measures include pre-deployment risk assessments, TEVV, legal reviews, audit trails with incident reporting and a national focal point.

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Status notes

Known as the A Coruña Declaration; the Spanish summit page heads it 'Declaración de A Coruña: "REAIM 2026 - Camino para la acción"'. The summit was organised by Spain's foreign and defence ministries, with the Ministry for Digital Transformation and the city of A Coruña, and closed on 5 February 2026; more than 80 delegations of countries and international organisations took part. The summit page lists 45 endorsing states 'as of today' (Albania, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Luxembourg, Malta, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Philippines, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Romania, Senegal, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Kingdom); the United States and China are not on the list, and the document remains open to approval by other countries. Neither the document nor the pages give a day of adoption. The text notes UNGA resolutions 79/239 and 80/58, the Secretary-General's report A/80/78, the work of the CCW Group of Governmental Experts on lethal autonomous weapons systems and the Global Commission on REAIM's 'Responsible by Design' report. At international level it recommends voluntary confidence-building measures, including information sharing on national policies and legal-review methods, table-top exercises and crisis-communication arrangements.

Sources

Open the official source https://exteriores.gob.es/en/REAIM2026/Documents/REAIM%202026%20Pathways%20to%20Action.pdf

Secondary source: https://exteriores.gob.es/en/REAIM2026/Paginas/default.aspx

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History

1. 2026-10-17notes: The Spanish host page presents the document as 'Declaración de A Coruña: REAIM 2 → Known as the A Coruña Declaration; the Spanish summit page heads it 'Declaración — the PDF file-creation date (file metadata, not text) and the comparison with the Blueprint's endorsement count removed; the Spanish name, the organisers, the close of the summit and the delegations added from the stored pages; the confidence-building measures added2026-10-17-recheck-international-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2. 2026-10-17summary: Outcome document of the third REAIM summit (A Coruña, 4-5 February 2026), buildi → Outcome document of the third REAIM summit (A Coruña, 4-5 February 2026), buildi — the summit dates now rest on the stored summit page and press note; 'bias' removed from the assurance clause (paragraph 11 lists unintended biases among challenges; the assessments it names are of reliability, security and resilience)2026-10-17-recheck-international-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
3. 2026-10-17issuing_body: Participating states of the third Summit on Responsible Artificial Intelligence → States adopting the outcome document of the third REAIM Summit (A Coruña, 4-5 Fe — 'in coordination with the Netherlands and the Republic of Korea' is not supported: the closing press note says only that Spain shares with them the role of host of the REAIM debate; the organisers restated from the press note and the hedge 'according to the host ministry's page' dropped2026-10-17-recheck-international-2 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

Related records

REAIM Call to Action REAIM Summit · Published (non-binding, current)

REAIM Blueprint for Action (Seoul, 2024) REAIM Summit (Seoul, 2024) · Published (non-binding, current)

UNGA resolution 79/239 on AI in the military domain United Nations · Published (non-binding, current)

UNGA resolution 80/58 on AI in the military domain United Nations · Published (non-binding, current)

UN SG report A/80/78 on AI in the military domain United Nations · Published (non-binding, current)

Political Declaration on Military AI Political Declaration on Responsible Military Use of AI (US-led initiative) · Published (non-binding, current)

Citation

States adopting the outcome document of the third REAIM Summit (A Coruña, 4-5 February 2026), organised by Spain's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation and Ministry of Defence; 45 states on the summit page's list. REAIM 2026 Pathways to Action. 2026-02. https://exteriores.gob.es/en/REAIM2026/Documents/REAIM%202026%20Pathways%20to%20Action.pdf. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-17 (level A). Local copy archive/INT-18/2026-10-11/official.pdf retrieved 2026-10-11 19:18:36 UTC, SHA-256 1c7d431a7e88c234f1a2cfdc0a6bc5682ed29871fcf0043b71de9009b4113dc0. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record INT-18.

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